DarkSkyCheck

League City, TX Night Sky Brightness

How dark is the sky in League City, TX?

Urban
85.3 nW/cm2/sr

League City's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 98.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than League City.

Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.

The nearest darker sky to League City

Dickinson, TX, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than League City. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Dickinson, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

League City against the rest of the dataset

League City, TX counts roughly 118,456 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, League City comes in at 3,130, darkest to brightest.